Ken, Are your workstations listed in your /etc/hosts file ?
I'm thinking that when you don't have a default gateway, the NFS server is doing a DNS query and failing immediately because of the lack of a route. But, when you setup the default gateway, the DNS query is going out to the internet, to try to resolve a name to go along with the IP address of the workstation. This can take 15 seconds per 'nameserver' entry in the /etc/resolv.conf file (I think it is 15 secs). It could be that your nfs request is timing out before the DNS query fails. So, check your /etc/hosts file to bypass DNS altogether for the workstations. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Ken Cobler wrote: > Here's the situtation: > > I have an Intel based server running RedHat 8.0. The server has 2 > ethernet cards. eth0 is used for the LAN address range (10.0.0.0). > eth1 is used for access to the internet through another box as the > firewall and gateway. eth1 address range is 192.168.1.0 > > The LAN subnet, eth0, is the address range for the server and the LTSP > workstations. > > If I configure the system with both ethernet cards and NO gateway (no > default route), the LTSP workstations will DHCP client, NFS, and load X > as expected. I cannot resolve any Internet address because of no > default route. > > If I turn on the gateway address for default routing to point to eth1, I > can then access the internet. However, the LTSP terminals will run DHCP > to get their IP address, but, when it gets to the point of mounting > root, the system LTSP workstation hangs. > > The last line received is > Mounting root /opt/ltsp/i386 from: 10.0.0.1 > 10.0.0.1 does happen to be the IP address for the RedHat server. > > I did not have this problem with RedHat 7.1 and LTSP 2.x. > > What am I missing ? > > Ken Cobler > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
